A burst of emergency federal funding during the COVID-19 pandemic allowed public health laboratories to upgrade, improve and invest. Laboratories modernized equipment, hired personnel, created more efficient processes, and expanded public health programs such as next-generation sequencing and wastewater surveillance. But supplemental funding has begun to recede. The boom-and-bust cycle of public health funding is well-known to public health professionals. They’ve seen it time and time again, which spurred laboratory directors during the pandemic to think critically and sustainably about how to invest COVID-19 dollars beyond the initial pandemic response, as seen in this issue’s feature article.
Also in this issue:
- APHL Internship Pool Offers Summer Relief in Wisconsin
- North Carolina’s Coordinated Response to Lead Contamination in Food: An Insider’s Perspective
- From Small to Large and Back Again: Planning for Automated Processes Present & Future
- Innovating AR Data Reporting to WHONET in Zambia
- Removing Barriers and Bringing Testing to the Community
- Strengthening the Biosafety Workforce
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